Yannick Veys - Marketing & Growth
Yannick Veys - Marketing & Growth

@Yannick_Veys

17 Tweets 4 reads Jul 30, 2021
You don't need a marketing degree to become a great marketer.
Here's everything you should know to start a marketing career:
We start with the marketing fundamentals by Philip Kotler (skip to 5:25)
He was one of the "founders" of textbook marketing and is a great storyteller.
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Steve Jobs in one of the most underrated marketing speeches ever.
Everyone thinks marketing = ads. Steve explains how that's completely false and what it's all about.
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The power of a brand is huge. And, unfortunately, not all brands are created equal.
Seth Godin explains what it means to have a real brand.
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Perception is everything in marketing. Dave Sutherland has a brilliant talk on it.
A real eye-opener for many.
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If you can tell a story you can sell something. This is a great talk by Dave Lieber. He masters the art of storytelling.
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This is the infamous talk from Simon Sinek "Start with why"
It's a brilliant way to visualize how you should talk about your business and how to get raving fans instead of commodity-buyers.
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Marketers are just like teachers. They have to embrace making mistakes and they have to be highly intuned to their audience who are "in pain".
This is a great talk (aspiring) marketers can learn a lot from.
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Positioning is an important part of a marketer's job. You need to know who to target and how to position your product. That doesn't always involve (a low) price.
This is a nice (short) talk on that topic
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Finding out why people buy your product, what job needs to be done is a crucial part of being a marketer. Clayton Christensen has written the book on that. In this talk at Google, you'll learn a ton of interesting marketing angles.
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One of the great new ways to make money is bundling and unbundling.
Create the "light" version of what [insert fortune 500 business] does.
Create a better version of a small part of what [insert fortune 500 business] does.
Ben Thompson on (un)bundling:
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Whether you're pitching clients or pitching customers, you need to find a great hook to get people to stay put and buy (your story).
Who other than Don Draper from Mad Men to teach us the ropes
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This is just me loving Rory Sutherland.
Quick video that will open your eyes to a new marketing view.
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As a marketer, you need to be creative. You need to be original. You need to avoid being a dime a dozen at all costs.
This is a great talk on how to improve your creativity.
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Dan Ariely is a genius writer and a genius economist. In this talk at Google, he shines the light on why irrationality is so important for marketers to understand.
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